The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal recently quashed a proposed levy on digital music players. The proposed levies weren’t cheap – $5 on each Memory Stick or SD card between 1GB and 4GB of memory, and digital audio recorder levies which top out at $75 for players with 30GB+ of space.

The Copyright Board of Canada argues that the extra tax is designed to compensate artists. The so-called “iPod Tax” would come in addition to existing levies on recordable media enforced in Canada, which are also meant to help compensate artists.

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